According to the whois data, the site is registered to someone in Reykjavik, Iceland… Not that that necessarily is correct.

Agreed, Talos or k3s are great for home clusters

This would imply that you have at least two machines. In that case they could just install Linux in the other machine to try it out.

Foa people dabbling in Linux for the first time, with the anxiety of losing their data, it certainly sound like they don’t have 2 machines to run syncthing. Otherwise, why wouldn’t they just copy all their important data to the other machine to avoid the data loss risk?

And sure if that is the case Syncthing is a good solution, but it doesn’t sound applicable in this situation.

My home Kubernetes cluster started out on a Core i7-920 with 8 GB of memory.

Upgraded to 16 GB memory

Upgraded to a Core i5-2400S

Upgraded to a Core i7-3770

Upgraded to 32 GB memory

Recently Upgraded to a Core i5-7600K

I think I’ll stay with that for rather long…

I did however add 2 Intel NUCs (gen 6 and gen 8) to the cluster to have a distributed control plane and some distributed storage.